I stumbled onto this wild venture some random tech tinkerer named PatRyk’s been up to. Picture this: iOS running on a Nintendo Switch. Yep, we’re talking about this Franken-phone kinda deal. But don’t get too pumped. PatRyk’s calling it “the world’s slowest ‘iPhone’,” which is kinda hilarious. Think about it—a whole 20 minutes just to turn on, and then every app crashes like it’s going through a midlife crisis. Classic.
So, like, here’s the scene. All these folks buzzing about the new Switch 2, right? Meanwhile, PatRyk’s chillin’, spending two whole days wrestling Apple’s OS onto this, uh, best-selling gaming doodad. You’ve gotta applaud his patience—or maybe wonder how many times he had to watch it crash back to the Stone Age. Seriously, that boot-up sounds soul-draining.
In its current chaotic state, using this ‘Switch-iPhone’ thing would probably make me pull my hair out. PatRyk mentions the “kernel panics” and apps that basically throw tantrums. What a mess. But hey, maybe once he polishes this little experiment, it could work? I dunno, but don’t throw out your iPhone just yet.
Alright, tech nerd talk. So, the unsung hero here is this nifty thing called QEMU. Apparently, the brainchild of some person or group named ChefKissInc—or so PatRyk says. Anyway, it’s like a magical emulator hocus-pocus to make Apple stuff run on totally different gear.
PatRyk pulled two days of, I dunno, quasi-mind-losing as he fiddled with this open-source thingamajig from GitHub. Who would’ve thought he could persuade iOS to function on the Switch’s Nvidia Tegra X1, right? But he did it—or sort of.
No word on whether PatRyk’s planning to keep digging into this eccentric project, but he hints at more coding escapades. Could be fun to keep tabs on him.
So there it is—an insane story from the world of tech fandom. Who knows what they’ll try next? But hey, it’s a good reminder that some folks out there have endless patience and imagination—and maybe a little too much time on their hands.
